For years now I've always just had to tell people that I work in the eHome Division at Microsoft. After the release of MCE, I've been able to say that I work on stuff related to that. Today finally, I'm happy to say, I can finally describe what I do.
Among the other things announced by Bill Gates at tonight's CES keynote is MCX - Media Center Extender technologies - the project that I work on. Pretty cool stuff, I think ... it's not this brand new thing that nobody's thought of or that isn't obviously something that people want, but it is something that people want with something like Media Center, so it's nice that we're able to unveil it after working on it for quite some time now.
I'm also happy to say that rumors of our demise were rather exaggerated (though, really, if you read the Register, you're asking for it. They're right up there with Slashdot in the pantheon of news sources that I "love".)
Most media coverage won't hit this late in the day, so I'll provide more links in the next few days for those of you who actually care (though, thinking about it, just about everyone who might possible read this already knew what I did and all about it).
--Nick
Edit: Some coverage from CNet and the transcript of the keynote are now up. Portable Media Center, by the way, deserve a mention. I have high hopes for these things.
Edit: Even more information from us on MCX.
Posted by Nick at January 7, 2004 09:22 PM | TrackBackNot everyone knew what you did or anything about it. :) Congrats on the announcement!
Posted by: Eric at January 7, 2004 10:48 PMI think its important to make a distinction between the Register and Slashdot. The register is indeed a news source (as they write their own stories) whereas slashdot is compliation of news from many sourses submitted by its readers. The ideological slant of the Register is created internally and is realized through its articles. The slant of slashdot is created externally via the comments of its readers.
I, of course, respect your opinion to have distain for both sites -- I just think its important to distinguish them.
Posted by: Erin at January 8, 2004 10:45 AMWell, by news source, I really just meant somewhere that people go to get news about technology ... you're certainly right that they're different in the way that the gather and disseminate their news.
--Nick
Posted by: Nick at January 8, 2004 11:18 AMI just generally tell people that I worked on Media Center. It's hard enough for them non-tech folks to understand _that_ let alone distributing Media Center to an Extender :)
Posted by: Inderpal Singh at January 8, 2004 12:54 PMNo wonder you laughed in my face when I asked you if you had TiVo.... :)
But with MCX, does this mean that my TV is going to start blue screening?
har har.
Posted by: Sha Sha at January 8, 2004 04:42 PMHeh, well, seeing as how the MCE UI is largely blue, I suppose so. :)
--Nick
Posted by: Nick at January 8, 2004 11:46 PMCould it be possible to know if there is a link for the MCE video in a format really supported on other platform that Windows?
RealPlayer or Quicktime would be fine.
Posted by: Anonymous & Coward at January 10, 2004 11:26 AMHi there ...
Though I did want to mention this stuff here since it is a big part of my life, I don't want to turn this weblog into a particularly work related one. The right place to ask your question is in the Media Center public newsgroup - you can access it at:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/newsgroups/default.asp
--Nick
Posted by: Nick at January 10, 2004 02:51 PMI have an Windows Media Extender question.
Have you thought to add the most important thing for a WME device in the bedroom - an alarm clock that can trigger a playlist (audio, video, FM radio) to start?
Posted by: Adam Hill at January 11, 2004 11:24 AMHi, Adam ...
Best place for you to send your suggestions:
http://register.microsoft.com/contactus30/feedback40.asp?domain=windows/winmediafeedback
--Nick
Posted by: Nick at January 11, 2004 12:03 PMCheck out the MCE Powertoys @ http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/mediacenter/downloads/powertoys.asp. You can get an 'alarm clock' and a playlist editor.
Posted by: Paul at January 11, 2004 11:49 PMcool!!!
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